The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-16
say and Carrie Carter is said to be
among the things forthcoming.


among the things forthcoming.
JAMES o. BARROW is managing the To-
cent academy In San Francisco. The
gifted Lansing is IN the support.
SARA JEwErT is lying sick and desti-
tute in New York tenement house.
The New York sun created sensation
among the profession last week by
charging that she was an opium wreck.
Milton Mobiles, who is famous
for giving treas TO his company
on all public and private aEnivers 7ries,
gave birthday luncheon TO his four
teen actors one day last week in Denver.
Don ask. Old enough TO vote. "-EE-
change.
BRONSON HOWARD is a peculiarly
placid man. He takes success and fail
ure with equal serenity. The fiasco of
Met by Chance did not disturb his good
spirits. nor has The Hsnietta's hit set
him off his balance Considering his
undoubted skill and his prominence,
there is something singularly engaging
in Towards amiable modesty. There
is nothing affected about tit is quite
genuine.-MiTrOr.
SPEAKING of Mrs. Potter reminds me
that my paragraph about her first
night house having been bought up by
Mr.. Vanderbilt. which appeared several
weeks ago, has been seriously denied
by the newspapers and finally by Mr..
Miner. The statement at the time it
was made to me seemed t,ifle abs urd.
and for that reason L took pains to give
its sourc e-Mr. Miner himself l am
not surprised that he is ashamed of his
tarradiddle now and comes forward to
renOunce it.-NirrOr,
THE TELEGRAPHIC report from St.
Paul in Mondays papers, to The effect
that Edwin Booth and Lawrence Bar
raft had completed arrangements
by which Mary Anderson would join
their company at the end of the present
season, and that Miss Anderson and
Mr.. Barrett would form cor bInation
next season similar to the Booth and
Barratt company of the present, is not
believed to have any foundation in fact.
Henry E. Abbey, under whose manage
ment Miss Anderson stars through this
country next season, beginning in No
VEN Der, 1888, was much surprised when
he heard of the report, ano said EN-
phatically that he knew nothing of it.
-NeW York Paper,
DURING THE original production of
the Lights O. London in London. the
actor who played Harold, after dressing
in his convict's garb, took 1t into his
head that he had time enough before
going on to walk around to the Post
office. Accordingly he put on an over
coat and sailed out into the street. On
reaching the Postoffice he thoughtlessly
threw his coat open, aud a number of
bystanders caught sight of his
prison uniform. A hue and cry
at once arose, and two policemen
bounced upon the unfortunate actor.
In vain he expostulated; his story that
he belonged to the theatre was regarded
as an ''old gag" and the officers pro-
ceeded to march him off to jail. Des
perate at the thought that it must be
near his time for going on the stage,
the actor broke from the police and ran
for the theatre, huge crowd after him.
yelling Stop thief" and Escaped
convict" and not till he reached the
stage door exhausted, was the matter
eXplai ed to the officers sati faction; be
gained the theatre just in time to take
up his cue, and exhausted and breath
less from the recent chase he rushed
upon the stage, and enacted the part of
the broken down, hunted convict so well
that cheer upon cheer rewarded his
efforts.